From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/51787 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Two newbie questions about Texfont Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:13:18 +0200 Message-ID: <4A5CCABE.7090309@wxs.nl> References: <97eab8e50907141047la6ce330qceba240e6b52fbb@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247595270 32693 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2009 18:14:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:14:30 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 14 20:14:23 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MQmWF-0005Qf-HQ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:14:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0AF1FB89; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:14:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29819-02; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:13:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E3A31FB38; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:13:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA32A1FB38 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:13:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29818-02 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:13:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-til.mf.surf.net (filter2-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.218]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97DF1FB30 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:13:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by filter2-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n6EIDIOp025517 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:13:18 +0200 Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 26809-1840426 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:13:18 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) In-Reply-To: <97eab8e50907141047la6ce330qceba240e6b52fbb@mail.gmail.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.247.100.17; country=NL; region=15; city=Almelo; latitude=52.3500; longitude=6.6667; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3500,6.6667&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 260770729 - 0acc47979c9e - 20090714 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.218 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:51787 Archived-At: Harrie Frericks wrote: > Now that I finally have Context running I'm trying to install a number of > type1 fonts. I've read the Texfont manual, but I couldn't find answers to > these questions: > 1. Can Texfont recursively process a font tree? > > I have a directory font tree like this: > > c:\fonts\type1\font-family1 > c:\fonts\type1\font-family2 > c:\fonts\type1\font-family3 > > each font-family subdirectory has a number of .afm files. If I set > --sourcepath to c:\fonts\type1 can Texfont recurse all the subdirectories of > the font families and locate and process the .afm files? > > > 2. Can Texfont handle .afm files with extensions in uppercase? > > Most of my type1 font files are in uppercase like: XYZ_____.AFM I can only > get Texfont to process these files if I first rename them to lowercase, like > XYZ_____.AFM since you're new to context you can consider skipping pdftex and moving on to either xetex or luatex (which uses context mkiv) for luatex/mkiv you don't need to mess around with fonts as this combo directly handles afm/pfb files so there is no need for creating tfm metrics Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________